Stalagmites chords by The Cribs

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G
D
Em
C#dim
F#
C#m
C
A
Bm
Asus4
Am

Intro 1

C#dim

C#m

Verse 1
D 
G 
We stand here in ceremonial dress
With a knife in the garter
Like the love you never get to feel
This is the fame of the martyr
Em 
You are the California smile

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Verse 2
You're the cake decorator
D 
G 
D 
He has like this plan which is
G 
just keep doing
Exactly what it is that you're
doing
And everything's just
somehow going to be alright
And I was like, I'm growing
Em 
stalagmites
D 
C 
D 
G 
I don't want to be here
anymore

Verse 3
G 
So I guess we're going to live in this haunted city forever
more
Where the gray
creeps through your front door
And all the houses look like jack- o- lanterns,
Exactly the same all stood in a row.
Em 
Glowing with the mundanity
G 
C 
Of an early evening being
lived out inside
D 

Verse 4
G 
Like the rabbits with ointment
in their eyes
Trying to focus in cages
The lines are blurred, so what is it?

Verse 5
An hourglass or two faces?
Em 
D 
G 
D 
We're only human is our excuse
G 
Let's just keep blaming nature
My heart melts less over the years
While the past rings in my ears
You are the California smile
Em 
You're the cake decorator

Verse 6
D 
So if needs be I'll batter you with
G 
unrelenting dignity
D 
My mouth will be sealed tighter
than a nervous clam
G 
Because  all words will be meaningless
When you're washed
up on the sand
Try not to think about the future
Em 
D 
Try not to live in the past

Interlude 1
C 
D 
G 
C 
Em 
G 
C 
F# 
G 
D 
A 
F# 
D 
F# 
Em 
Bm 
F# 
D 
G 
Em 
Asus4 
Em 
Am 
D 

Verse 7
G 
In the meantime,
Em 
Am 
I'll write down all of these words
A 
Em 
And sing songs of being lost
Am 
then found (yeah)
Em 
D 
Being loved and lost